Shadowed Unit Frames

  • Addon: Shadowed Unit Frames
  • Version: r20090620
  • Category: Unit Mod
  • Size: 216KB
  • Libs: Ace3
  • Score: 4/5
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  • Author: Shadowed
  • Wow Version: 3.1.3
  • Update: 2010-7-8 22:41:16
  • Localized: En
  • Vote: -3 +1 +3

The main focus of Shadowed Unit Frames is having a simplistic configuration, while maintaining flexibility that the vast majority of users care about. While you aren't going to be able to set that you want the health bar to be exactly 3.14 pixels outside of the health bar, you can set change options that you actually care about such as bar height, ordering, frame height and so on. All configuration can be done on multiple units at the same time through the global configuration, meaning if you want to set the height of player and target frames to 50, but then you want to set the height of targettarget and targettargettarget to 30 you can easily do that with changing only two options, instead of having to do it four times for each unit.

For people who want to tweak every single setting, you can enable advanced configuration which will show extra settings for those who have to tweak every little thing they have to. However, you do not need to enable this by default, and most people should not need to enable them.

Currently, only one layout is included by default (The one seen in the screenshot), but I will include a few more once I have the layout manager in.

Beta versions can be found on my github repo.

Slash commands: /shadoweduf (/suf shorthand)

SUF includes the general features you expect in an unit frame, like health bars, the two new ones it has are anchoring and visibility:

Anchoring
For those who are driven crazy because their frames look to be half a pixel off center of your player frames, you can simply anchor the frame to the player frames and solve the hassle of aligning everything. For example, the target frames are anchored to the right of the player frame, and the ToT frames are anchored to the top of the player frames (In the screenshots).


If you tried to drag player, all the other frames will follow it in the same anchoring. Each frame can still be manually positioned and put wherever you want, but this gives you a way of easily anchoring everything and keeping frames nice and aligned without having to use a ruler.

Visibility
If when inside an arena you want to see your totot or party's target, but in a raid you don't want to see either of those then instead of having to manually change settings or swap profiles on zoning you can set SUF to do it automatically. Modules can be set to be disabled inside raid instances, but enabled inside a party instance, or a battleground.

Other features
Auras: Can be set to only show auras you casted, or can cast on others. Can enlarge auras that you casted, and hide the cooldown ring on the timers of auras you didn't cast as well to make it more obvious which ones you casted and which ones you didn't.
Tags: Includes a simple tagging system that can be customized in virtually any way using Lua, so even if something isn't included by default odds are you can make the tags do it with a little work.
Fader: Fades frames when out of combat and inactive (100% mana/no target)
Rune/totem bars: Supports simple rune and totem bars inside the players unit frames.
Profiles: Profiles can be changed without having to do a UI reload, lets you quickly change settings based on where you are without the hassle of it either being buggy or having to reloadui each time.

And pretty much the usual UF features, indicators for leader/raid targets/etc, cast bars, portraits, combat text.

Modules
As SUF has basic module support, there are released that add additional features. If you're interested in building a module, you can see documentation on my github site for more information.

CC Timers by Proditor, shows timers for CCs as a giant icon with the time left inside on the portraits.
Five second rule by Kemayo
Power bar colored by class by moniker
Arena frames by myself
Raid frame improvements (Aura indicators/vertical bars/cure indicators/etc) by myself

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